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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Ukadike Nnamah." <ezeobi535@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: "Mr.Ukadike Nnamah." <ukadikennamah@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:14:59 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: FEDERAL INTERPOL COMMAND Lagos Nigeria.


 Dear Elect
You are welcome to Desk of  Inspector General Mr Ukadike Nnamah,  International Interpol Police  Force Investigation West Africa. Working together towards a corruption-free world by promoting and defending integrity, justice and the rule of law' Mission statement of the International Anti-Corruption Academy. You have been  reported today from World delivery courier department.
Please this email message is coming to you from International Police Command (INTERPOL) We are contacting you today to inform you earlier that we discovered your consignment box sum of $3,500,000.00Usd from hands of arrested criminals in the World Delivery Dept office trying to shift your fund to their helper partner who will share the fund with them. After the arrest with several torturing they confessed that the $3,500,000.00Usd belongs to you but they wanted to shift it to someone who can help them and keep it well in Malaysia, they also said that they have contacted you several times regards to the fund but you did not comply for them to transfer the fund to you and that’s why they wanted to achieve the fund within themselves.
To avoid much delaying, the Usd$3.5Million are safety in our treasure but we will like to hear from you before we will proceed with the transfer to your bank account, But the best you have to do now is to keep away from anyone in Internet from now till you have this funds in your possession because there are a lot happening in internet, today Interpol Police Force in partnership with the Stars Initiative is working towards the recovery and return of stolen assets. This project allows Interpol to actively engage national law enforcement bodies incoordinated efforts to trace, seize,  confiscate and return public funds to victims.
Meanwhile, You will pay the total amount of US$155 for issuance of Police clearance report which is the hindrance for your non receive of your fund and will be signed by Attorney General and Endorse by your Embassy here in Nigeria. The documents  will back up the consignment box before the delivery will take place, I am advising you to be fast in all your action to avoid more problems so that we can deposit your funds to bank of Africa for an immediate transfer to your account, the transfer of your amount will be monitored  by our delegate until it enters your account.
Contact us with  your full information and we will respond back to you with the payment information where to send the $155 for immediate release of your funds.
Name In Full:::Home AddressContact Telephone:::Passport Id::
Thanks and remain blessed.
FEDERAL INTERPOL COMMAND NigeriaInspector General Mr.Ukadike Nnamah.E-mail::(ukadikennamah@gmail.com)FEDERAL INTERPOL COMMAND Lagos Nigeria.

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